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Queen Elizabeth Sails Cunard’s Last Scheduled Alaska Season
The twenty-one-night repositioning voyage includes a full Panama Canal transit and calls in Los Angeles, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Quetzal, Panama City and Curaçao.
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Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean Opens $137M Seward Cruise Terminal
Under a thirty-year commitment, Royal Caribbean receives preferential berthing rights and guarantees delivery of at least one hundred forty thousand passengers annually.
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Ritz-Carlton’s Luminara Opens Alaska Schedule in Vancouver
During the turn call, Luminara disembarked and embarked guests, took on supplies, then sailed north through Canada’s Inside Passage toward Alaska.
Royal Caribbean
Seward Greenhouse Wins Royal Caribbean’s First Port Partners Award
The greenhouse modules with solar power are expected to raise Exit Glacier Greenhouses’ output from seven hundred pounds in 2026 to four thousand pounds within a year.
Virgin Voyages
Starboard Launches Alaska-Exclusive Goods on Brilliant Lady
Virgin’s Seattle departures run through September, with seventeen seven- to twelve-night voyages scheduled to twelve Alaska and Pacific Northwest destinations.
Royal Caribbean
Voyager of the Seas Begins First Alaska Season From Seattle
The Seattle itineraries call at Juneau, Skagway, Sitka and Victoria, with one seven-night program adding scenic cruising at Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier.
Holland America Line
Vancouver Hits 1 Million Cruise Passengers Processed by Biometrics
The terminal typically runs four biometric stations on cruise days, with twelve tables available for peaks and staff adjusting tablet heights for passengers.
MSC Cruises
MSC Poesia to Carry Whale Observer in Alaska This Summer
NOAA’s Alaska humpback approach rules date to July 2001; in the Juneau area, nine vessel-strike incidents were reported from 2020 through 2024.
MSC Cruises
MSC Poesia Adds Whale Observer to Reduce Alaska Strike Risks
The deployment brings Poesia into Southeast Alaska waters where nine vessel-strike incidents were reported near Juneau from 2020 through 2024, six involving calves.
Princess Cruises
Princess Cruises Drops Summer Caribbean Sailings in 2027
Caribbean Princess is scheduled to leave Port Canaveral in late April 2027 for Copenhagen, then sail twelve-night Baltic itineraries before repositioning to Boston.
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Canada Place Prepares for 60,000 Cruise Passengers During World Cup
Vancouver expects about 1.4 million cruise passengers on just under 360 calls this year, while Canada Place marks its fortieth year as an Alaska cruise homeport.
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CDC Reports Alaska Illness Outbreak on National Geographic Sea Bird
After the May 28 report to the Vessel Sanitation Program, National Geographic Sea Bird isolated ill passengers and crew and increased disinfection under its response plan.